>Whenever I have a user with hosed data, it always seems to be the memo file that is bad. Consequently:
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>1. Is there a way to recover data from a corrupt memo file without using a 3rd party application?
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>2. If not, is there a reasonably priced application? (I have need of this 1-2x a year for customers without valid backups.)
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>3. Is there an alternative to fragile memo files? Does anyone roll their own memo fields using 250 character fields and pasting them together, or some similar solution?
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>Thanks.


Hi John

I just purchased SDT Stonefield database toolkit. for this purpose. There are classes that you install in your application that can repair most error's you will run into. The classes have methods to check database for corruption & repair on startup or whenever you choose to execute them (On error etc). Via menu or whatever.

SDT wil do this and much much more.

Take a walk over to there site. I'm sure you will be impressed.

www.stonefield.com

Russ